A two-colour print: an armoured giant with a spear and a raised sword stands astride a gorge, a small figure running along the walls of an orange castle below him.

Submissions

What we're looking for, and how to send it.

When deciding to embark upon a joint venture, it is best to find a direction that interests a wide array of parties and approaches consensus. Predicate to this is a moment of idea-gathering, net-casting, divination, adventure-planning, and lots of looking into the horizon and dreaming of things yet unseen. That is the process we would like to embark on together through this journal. Following in the footsteps of academics, philosophers, and their ilk; we call upon you to submit thinking, writing, and artwork that reflect the bleeding part of the cutting edge, fresh drippings from the zeitgeist, dreams that may in fact be prophecies.

What we publish

  • A wood engraving by Tony Johannot: a man at a desk in the corner of a study writes with a quill, holding a book open against the wall with his other hand, more books piled at his feet.

    Essays

    ideas over form or prose, we seek the bottling of fascinating new ways of thinking and seeing the world.

  • A wood engraving by Tony Johannot from Don Quixote: a knight on foot drives his lance into a sprawling, scaly dragon.

    Fiction

    we invite you to perform positive hyperstitions and we will provide a vessel.

  • A wood engraving by J.-J. Grandville: three dandies in extravagant coats and tall hats, one in a jester's cap, walk arm in arm, watched by two plainly dressed men. Caption: Les fous inventent les modes, et les sages les suivent.

    Memes

    the ones you will repeat to your grandchildren.

  • A wood engraving of Lana de Terzi's 1670 airship design: a wicker boat with a mast and sail, held up by four large spheres, a man seated at the stern. Caption: Ballon de 1670.

    Code

    but only when it is poetry first and code second.

What lies at the beating heart of what it means to care about the world and be good at computers right here right now

Issue One: Using Your Tools

Using Your Tools; what does it mean to put pen to paper, or whatever the hell it is we do. The threshold of preparation and deployment. No plan survives first contact, or does it? Philosophies of what to prepare for. What preparation means. What you are preparing your tools for; and what it means to transition to a new place, and importantly, bring others along with you. (but better?) a dare to use our tools, as lovers of conversing about the best ones

A nineteenth-century engraving of Klingert's diving machine: a man in a riveted metal cylinder that covers his head and body, breathing tubes looping from its top, holding a pickaxe, with lettered callouts marking its parts.

What we're after

Short and thoughtful, we are not filling space. Spill your brain. We can help edit for clarity, as long as there is something there. We will read all submissions, so please value our time by not feeding us slop (robot-created or otherwise); and in the same vein, if you are hesitating to think you have something of value to contribute, we implore you to believe you absolutely do

The particulars

Length
Maximum 4000 words.
Form
PDF / markdown document / github gist.
Rights
You fully own all work. It is published online for free, no ads are run, no money involved (for issue 1 anyway).
Reply
We will reply to everyone by January 1st 2027.

Send us your work

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Prefer email? submissions@vestibulequarterly.com.